Project 4: Map of Hawaiian land use/land cover and watersheds* (or some other shapefile data, in R)

 

In this document, I’m going to show interactive maps for different land use / land cover types for all main Hawaiian islands, and for different watersheds for all main Hawaiian islands.

 

The data being used are:

 

- For Map 1: “Land Use Land Cover of main Hawaiian Islands as of 1976”. Source: 1:100,000 1976 Digital GIRAS (Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis) files. Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) data consists of historical land use and land cover classification data that was based primarily on the manual interpretation of 1970’s and 1980’s aerial photography. Secondary sources included land use maps and surveys.

 

- For Map 2: Surface Water Hyrdrologic Unit Boundaries (Watersheds) for the 8 major Hawaiian Islands. Source: GDSI, 1995, 1999; State of Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM), 2008. Provided to State GIS, August, 2017.

 

The following code was used to build Map 1:

landuse <- read_sf(dsn = here("Land_Use_Land_Cover_LULC"), layer = "Land_Use_Land_Cover_LULC") 

landuseselect <-  landuse %>% 
  mutate(
    landusenew = case_when(
      landcover == "Cropland and Pasture" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Evergreen Forest Land" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Streams and Canals" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Orchards, Groves, Vineyards, Nurseries and Ornamental Horticultural Areas" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Forested Wetland" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Reservoirs" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Nonforested Wetland" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Bare Exposed Rock" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Sandy Areas Other than Beaches" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Mixed Rangeland" ~ "Agricultural",
      landcover == "Shrub and Brush Rangeland" ~ "Agricultural",
      landcover == "Herbaceous Rangeland" ~ "Agricultural",
      landcover == "Other Agricultural Land" ~ "Agricultural",
      landcover == "Beaches" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Lakes" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Mixed Barren Land" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "Bays and Estuaries" ~ "Natural",
      landcover == "0" ~ "NA",
      landcover == "Commercial and Services" ~ "Industrial",
       landcover == "Strip Mines, Quarries, and Gravel Pits" ~ "Industrial",
       landcover == "Confined Feeding Operations" ~ "Industrial",
       landcover == "Residential" ~ "Residential",
       landcover == "Transportation, Communications and Utilities" ~ "Industrial",
       landcover == "Mixed Urban or Built-up Land" ~ "Residential",
       landcover == "Transitional Areas" ~ "Industrial",
       landcover == "Industrial and Commercial Complexes" ~ "Industrial",
      landcover == "Industrial" ~ "Industrial",
      landcover == "Other Urban or Built-up Land" ~ "Residential"
      )) 

tmap_mode("view")


landusemap <- tm_shape(landuseselect) +
  tm_fill("landusenew", title = "Land Cover") +
  tm_borders() +
  tm_layout(
          title.position = c("center", "top"),
          legend.title.size = 1,
          legend.text.size = 0.6,
          legend.position = c("left","bottom"),
          legend.bg.color = "white",
          legend.bg.alpha = 1) +
  tm_basemap("Stamen.Terrain")
  
  landusemap
Map 1: Land Use in Hawaiian Islands Source: 1:100,000 1976 Digital GIRAS (Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis) files.

 

The following code was used to build Map 2:

tmap_mode("view")

watershedmap <- tm_shape(watersheds) +
  tm_fill("area_sqmi", title = "Square Kilometers") +
  tm_borders() +
  tm_layout(
          legend.title.size = 1,
          legend.text.size = 0.6,
          legend.position = c("left","bottom"),
          legend.bg.color = "white",
          legend.bg.alpha = 1) +
  tm_basemap("Stamen.Terrain")

watershedmap

Map 2: Watersheds for the 8 major Hawaiian Islands. Source: GDSI, 1995, 1999; State of Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM), 2008. Provided to State GIS, August, 2017.